From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 2 13:37:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA29525 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 13:37:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fosse.virage.com (mail.virage.com [206.169.1.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA29519 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 13:37:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brandon@virage.com) Received: from cliff.virage.com (cliff [128.0.0.179]) by fosse.virage.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id NAA10423 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 13:36:21 -0700 Received: from virage.com (zaha [128.0.0.173]) by cliff.virage.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id NAA28195 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 13:36:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <35EDAC29.F726969F@virage.com> Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 13:35:53 -0700 From: Brandon Huey Reply-To: brandon@virage.com Organization: Virage, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: cpu considerations for packet filtering Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG how important is L2 cache for packet-filtering, and heavy network traffic in general? i have a very small 3.0-SNAP kernel with ipf and ssh that will boot from floppy into memory. the hard drive in the machine is used only for logging. i'm writing a front-end to ipf so that the admin of this gateway can generate new rules and have them updated via scp. i want to build this as cheaply as possible and am interested by the AMD 3D cpu which i have found for < $100. the possible downside is that it has no integrated cache. advice? thanks, -bh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message